Back in the day, when regular gas was a quarter, if you got premium, then known as ethyl, it cost 2 cents or 4 cents more, depending on whether you traded at a “major” station or a “minor” station. Today, as the price of gas is headed toward $5.00, you will pay a premium of 20 to 40 cents depending on the station. Now that’s progress.
The 2011 Drougth
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Ecology, Economy, Weather on February 15, 2012 by JoeyTexas in general, and Coryell County in particular has just suffered through the greatest drought in my lifetime. Never have I seen trees die from lack of water. I have never seen so many stock tanks either so low, or dried up completely.
I’m praying for wetter year this year even though much of the vegetation has been lost forever.
Cremation
Posted in Life on June 12, 2011 by JoeyYou know, Baptists ain’t all that big on cremation. I wonder why? The eleventh commandment ain’t “Thou shalt not burn the body!” It ain’t like the deceased gives a rip after he’s gone. And I feel no obligation to make those funeral directors all that much richer.
True story – I buried an aunt in mid-1995 for $3300. I buried her husband 7 months later for $4200. Same funeral. Same funeral home.
What do you think?
Legal, but not legitimate
Posted in Life on June 12, 2011 by JoeyI know that pawn shops were started as a way for the lender to make easy money and for the borrower to have a source of easy cash. They still serve that purpose to a certain degree. However, more than not, a pawn shop is a legal “fence” for stolen merchandice.
Just the other day I went into such a shop just to kill time while my wife was shopping for groceries. One of the first things I noticed was a brand new John Deere lawn mower. Now this is at least a $500.00 mower. The thing had never been used. Does anyone expect me to believe that the original purchaser had an emergency need for cash and had to hock it before he could use it for the first time?
What do you think?
High oil and gasoline prices
Posted in Politics on June 11, 2011 by JoeyEven Rush Limbaugh has grudgingly admitted that skyrocketing oil and gasoline prices have been caused mainly by commodities speculators, not supply and demand as he had insisted during the run-up preceding Obama’s election.
It’s about time he woke up because then as now, there was no correlation between the price on the commodities exchanges and the availability of the product.
